Where: The Lees Gallery, Talbot Campus
When: 28 November 2024 - 28 January 2025
This environmental photography exhibition highlights and celebrates the positive contributions migrants and refugees make to society and to Bournemouth in particular. It aims to counter the negative rhetoric and connotations that have been created around terms/labels such as ‘refugee’ and ‘migrant’ and shows the everyday, hardworking human beings just trying to get through life like everybody else. This exhibition is part of The Artist as Public Intellectual: Bringing Rememory and Sankofa to Imagined Futures of Ethical Transnational Media Collaborations.
About the artist:
Dr Rehan Zia holds a practice-led PhD in photography/visual effects craft practice. Rehan has been awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS) – the highest level of RPS distinctions – as well as the Fellowship of the Royal Society for Arts (FRSA). Visual storytelling lies at the core of Rehan’s creative practice, teaching and research. He has a passion for telling stories through light, form and colour, creating images that lie on the cusp of fantasy and realism. Rehan teaches a wide range of visual effects and camera-based related courses at the Bournemouth University’s National Centre for Computer Animation in the UK.